On 10.12.2013 12:45, Matthias Runge wrote:
Additional use cases: * Database application * mail server (yes, that's really old school), like smtp, imap, spamassassin, etc. * is there a use case for virtual desktops?
Apologies for the late note. IMHO, there should be a marketing opportunity in the virtual desktop option too. I do not have the necessary numbers to back this opinion, but what follows are some local (micro) observations:
Many friends of mine had migrated to OSX notebooks in the recent years (the reasons are different subject, discussed already, and mostly addressed with Fedora.next strategy and point of view). Many of them are relatively experienced Linux developers and sysadmins and _all_ of them have _Linux_ as deployment target - mostly CentOS (hopefully Fedora Server 1.0 next year ;-), when the community succeeds with the whole technical and marketing effort).
But in OSX they do not have more than terminal, browser and text editor as environment - not the same compilers out of the box, no Spice client, nor any advanced development tools. To reduce the inconvenience, currently they spending fair amount of time to search and install modules and other things i.e. to mimic something "near" to the CentOS production environment locally on their Apple calculators.
My current development environment is Fedora VM with enabled xrdp/vnc. So, I have personal experience how convenient is that setup - access to a _live_ session with few clicks from practically everywhere - customer site, home, office. I not have installed Guacamole yet (the HTML5 RD client), but have this in my todo too.
I hope 4-5 Fedora formulas, targeted to different stacks (Python, Java, Perl, etc.) with 1-2 formulas available as prebuild images (intended for easy testing, and with installed formula-to-image tool for bootstrapping other flavors), ready to be used in public/private cloud and/or with e.g. Vagrant locally, might have chance to attract number of devs/sysadmins and to bring positive effect on their performance.
Kind Regards, Alek _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
